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His PBS Documentary on California’s Immigration Dilemma Gets You Thinking (VIDEO)
Over this year, I’ve talked on DT about how we’ve been dealing with this economic downturn with tips from some of our alumni. But how do you think the economic downturn has affected undocumented farm workers? Documentary filmmaker, producer and director Loren Mendell (C’95, Friars) journeys into this world with writer/reporter Jason Margolis and shows […]
His Colorful Documentary Has Been Nominated for An Award & Needs Your Vote!
Earlier this year I posted about the talented documentary filmmaker Loren Mendell (C’95, Friars) and his film Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene. The film has now been nominated for the Independent Lens Audience Award and he needs your vote! Watch the trailer above and read more about his film from my previous […]
His Documentary is Airing on TV This Week
From documentaries about oil spills to prison baseball teams, filmmaker Loren Mendell (C’95, Friars) documentary which was featured in this year’s Slamdance is now on TV this week. Loren’s latest film Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene tells the unlikely story of America’s first shock jock Petey Greene and features Howard Stern, Marion […]
The Pulitizer Center on Crisis Reporting Commissioned Them
Last week I covered Jim Goldblum (C’07, 34th Street)‘s story about his virtual Katrina Yearbook which CNN said, of all the press coverage and all the documentaries, it was “one of the best of the best.” If that wasn’t cool enough, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting had since commissioned Jim’s Yearbook 2006 team (Jim, […]
This Filmmaker Returns To His Roots and Branches Out
While Loren Mendell (C’95, Class President, Friars) has worked with fellow classmate and Penn alum Rob Pearlstein (C’95) on the Hollywood shorts Matumbo Goldberg and the Oscar nominated Our Time is Up, he’s no stranger to Documentary filmmaking. In fact, he’s quite prolific. In his latest documentary, Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees, Loren travels […]
Funny Fridays: New Film From Oscar Nominated Pair
Even after 13 years since graduation two Penn filmmakers are still collaborating and doing some high level Hollywood projects together. In between picketing during the big Writer’s Strike, Rob Pearlstein (C’95, DP) wrote*, directed and acted in a new, very funny short MATUMBO GOLDBERG (Rob is featured far right in movie poster). Along with the […]
